Category: F3F

At our drinks last week we found out about e-stitches and their great mix of tech and fashion!

‘Tis the season for woolly hats and gloves – 6:30pm on 11thDecember at The Pervasive Media Studio

For this session we’re going to be looking at soft circuits in hats and gloves. We discussed in last month’s session the use of conductive pompoms to light up woolly hats, and we’ve also found these gloves instructables projects for woolly gloves or cycling gloves

Basic materials to make something will be provided but if you have specific ideas that require materials please bring them along. Any of the following would be useful if you have them and could bring them;

Materials

A funky hat or some stylish gloves, Felt or fleecy fabric off cuts, Coloured wool, Conductive wool, LEDs, Button battery or a couple of AAAs, Battery holder or some thick elastic, Conductive thread, Any kind of switch you would like to incorporate

DigiLocal has set up a crowdfunding campaign DigiLocal Crowdfunding. The work that they do to support getting children into coding, working tirelessly into the weekends and evenings for little reward we recognise. We love the fact that It’s been so succesful based on what we see as plain air and tenacity, working on encouraging inclusion into the realm of Tech – we are in awe! Everyone wants to ensure theres an inclusive talent pipeline coming through so we would love to see all Tech companies to put thair hands into their pockets in this festive season and support this (it’s that or we put out a John lewis style Christmas AD about it .. just replacing the Piano with a laptop)

On monday we went to the Bristol Equality Charter launch event. Rather than describe it in detail you can read the BBC overview. The initiative has come from Councillor Asher Craig who presented on it with great passion. We loved it and were more than happy to be one of the underlying signatories.

One of the points that Marvin mentioned in his talk really resonated with us. He said that whenever people talk Diversity there seems to be competition with people saying “what about” BAME/Women/Age/Disabled/LGBT?

We believe we are inclusive of all as a group and do not segregate members. To us everyone is equal and we are simply trying to push tech into being more inclusive. We happily work with other organisations to support them but we are simply concentrating on our area of knowledge.

We popped along to the new Desklodge House this week which, as expected, is looking truly great. They have their first companies in and are working with us at WTH and HBB on some very exciting plans for a recruitment & careers fair next year.

If you would like to be involved mail us on info@wthub.org, we will be releasing more details as we firm it up. If you want to pop along and take a sneeky preview feel free to mail us and we’ll introduce you to the lovely team.

At our meetup this week we discussed about freelancing and how isolating it can be. The Bristol Co-workers co-working group is really friendly, meets up regularly and we recommend popping along. We ran a collaborative meetup quiz night social with them a while ago and had great fun, they won the quiz but we’re not sore losers.